“金融是描述貨幣信用、銀行業以及各種促進方法的理論與實務。這一理論包括投資、投機、信貸與証券。”（Jerry M。Rosenberg） 從一個更宏觀的角度講，“它是關於金融系統如何協調、疏導貨幣在借貸雙方的流動以及新貨幣是如何在借貸過程中通過金融中介的作用創造出來的學問。”（Maureen Burton，Ray Lomba） 本文的研究範圍是第一種定義方式，旨在探討銀行、投資、國際結算等方面專業英語詞彙的詞源、特點和翻譯。
　　金融專業語言，作為一種社團方言的， 具有較強的實用性、知識性和專業性。與其它社團方言相比較， 其專業詞彙數量大、應用範圍廣。其詞彙體系主要由金融專業朮語、金融工作常用詞語和民族共同語中的其它基本詞和非基本詞搆成。而其中的金融朮語是金融語言詞彙體系中重要的組成部分。
　　
　　一、英漢金融專業朮語的特點

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First, please tell me some general information about Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.

At present, there are two distinctive Chinese writing systems coexistent in the world – Traditional Chinese (TC) and Simplified Chinese (SC). SC was actually simplified from the TC using a methodology that tries to maintain the basic features of Chinese characters while making it less complicated and easier to learn. As one of the countries that had the biggest illiterate population, the Chinese government thought, through simplifying the writing system and thus making it easier to write, more Chinese would be able to access education. But this simplification is based upon rather regular rules, and a large number of characters were not changed at all.

A few more fine touches on this old subject. There is another piece of work written by a fellow member of the same forum which has already given a brief introduction on the history of Chinese characters, therefore I would simply skip that part and go straight into the practical details. Anyone who is otherwise interested in knowing why some Chinese people use the simplified Chinese and while some others use the traditional one can read that article, for you won't find that information here.